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Writing and recording - errors in keys & chords
Different sources are cited for the chords in the first & 2nd movements, and both are problematic, leading to bad information in the article. The first source is an interviewer making a comment to Mark Farner about a D-G-G6/C progression, and Farner did not comment or correct the interviewer. He was not asked if that was correct, and I don't believe it is. (I believe it's D-Cadd9, but I'm not a RS, just a musician and guitar teacher in our public school system.) I don't think an interviewer's comment that was not explicitly replied to can be a RS if the interviewer himself is not a RS.

For the second movement, the song was transposed down to a different key in the source cited, so the chords given are a whole step flat. They are not "C to B♭add9," as written in the article, but D to Csus2. (A sus2 chord is, for our purposes, the same as an add9 chord.) The second movement is absolutely not played as a C to a B♭ chord of any kind in the Grand Funk Railroad studio recording. There is a slow break in the first movement that goes from Dm to B♭ and back, finishing with F then A before returning to the 1st movement chord progression.

I don't know how to properly source this and fix it. Any musician with an ear can tell what's on the page now is dead wrong (certainly the key of the 2nd movement), but I can't do OR and give my own transcription, right? So what now? Dcs002 (talk) 01:59, 11 July 2022 (UTC)


 * This happens fairly often with song articles and it's a case of WP:NOTTRUTH compounded by everyone's ear being a bit different. I think your best bet is just to remove the two statements, giving an edit summary saying you think the sources are weak or wrong, and not replace them with anything.  Wasted Time R (talk) 10:56, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I removed the chords with a summary that also pointed back here. It would be cool to have them in the article, but I think you're right. I know how editors can be when one insists they are more correct than the other, and I think it's best to avoid all that. I'm totally in support of restoring the correct chords if they are from the same RS, or at least in the same key. Dcs002 (talk) 03:28, 12 July 2022 (UTC)